Craig Fees, PhD, MA, AB, RMARA (ret.)

EDUCATION

1988

 

PhD., Institute of Dialect and Folklife Studies, School of English, University of Leeds, England.

Dissertation Title: Christmas Mumming in a North Cotswold Town: With Special Reference to Tourism, Urbanisation and Immigration-Related Social Change

For a Review, see: Tom Pettitt: "Christmas Mumming..." Roomer 7:3 (1989), pp. 46-48 ["A major event in the study of English customary drama"...]

1981

 

MA, Department of Theater Arts and Rhetoric, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.

Thesis Title: Medieval Theater in Indo-European Context

1974

 

AB, Department of Theater, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California

birth - present

 

Life

EMPLOYMENT

2011 to December 31, 2018

 

Archivist and Development Officer, Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre

2010 to 2022

 

Course tutor and author, Centre for Archive and Information Studies (CAIS), University of Dundee

Author and distance learning tutor, Oral History Module

2010 to 2011

 

Project Director (part-time), "Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children: an oral history of residential therapeutic child care c. 1930 - c. 1980".

Designed, prepared grant application and directed ambitious Heritage Lottery Fund supported, award-winning, 21-month project which ran from January 2010 through October 2011. For further information, see the Final Report (this will take you to the pdf download on the project website).

2007 to 2024

 

Honorary Research Fellow, History of Medicine Unit, University of Birmingham

2005 to 2011

 

 

Archivist (part-time), Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre

Having been made redundant by the Trust as a cost-saving measure, I was re-hired on a part-time basis to carry on the work established from 1988-2005 (see below), with a special focus on strictly archival tasks relating to the backlog which developed as a consequence of increasingly tight resources following the economic downturn in the wake of the 9/11/2001 attacks and the slow recovery, hitting charitable investments as well as sources of external funding.

1988 to 2005

 

Founding Archivist, given title of Director in 2002 (2002-2005), Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre

Given responsibility by a small British charitable trust (Registered Charity No. 248633) to build a dynamic and professional archive and study centre from scratch, based originally on one archive collection housed in an adapted bedroom. At the time my time came to an end, it held over 400 archive collections, with a Research Library of an uncatalogued number of items well in excess of 7,000 volumes, an oral history collection of more than 2,000 recordings, and an active web-site and information service, housed in a building specially adapted in the late 1990s, with a substantial purpose-built extension completed in 2002. On the basis of the work I was awarded Registered Member status through experience by the Society of Archivists (now the Archives and Records Association) in 2003.

Freelance and Consultancy

2012

 

Oral History Consultant, “Land, Cultural Heritage and Identity in the Scottish Highlands”, an oral history-centred project based at the University of Gloucestershire led by Dr. Iain Robertson

2006 to 2007

 

External Evaluator, "Generations Talking", a pilot project by the exciting local heritage group Wildrose Heritage and Arts in Hebden Bridge, for a projected larger, more extensive oral history project

2004 to 2006

 

Associate Monitor, Heritage Lottery Fund, “Spinning Yarns: Voices from the Heritage Coast”, an ambitious oral history project of the Bridport, Devon, Museums Trust

2004

 

Group Facilitator, Oral History Society Committee

Facilitating a weekend residential retreat, during which the Committee examined its history and functioning, as part of a successful transition in the life of the Committee, a restructuring of its decision-making processes, and the creation of a new business plan.

2004

 

Group Facilitator, East Midlands Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (EMLAC)

Facilitating a day of reflection and envisioning by the Management Team.

2003 to 2004

 

Expert Advisor, Heritage Lottery Fund

Advising the Heritage Lottery Fund on the merits and issues needing to be addressed by applicants for oral history projects.

Training

2003 to 2021

 

Recognised Trainer, Oral History Society/British Library oral history trainings

Facilitating Oral History Society/British Library "Introduction to Oral History" as well as bespoke oral history training events. Training events convey historical, theoretical, legal, technical and archival information and advice, as well as hands-on training and discussion, and typically involve groups of 8-12 participants, ranging within a group from students without experience, to journalists, to experienced older local community historians, to academics.

VOLUNTARY SERVICE

Professional, General

2018 - present

 

Trustee, Squiggle Foundation.

The Squiggle Foundation's aims are to study and disseminate the work of D.W. Winnicott, with a particular emphasis on application. Winnicott (1896-1971) was a paediatrician and psychoanalyst whose substantial contribution to psychoanalytic thought may be condensed into three main areas: the mother-infant relationship, primary creativity and transitional phenomena.  Running through all his concepts is the value attributed to the sense of self.  The evolution of his thought on the essence of human nature has created a unique contribution to a wide variety of therapeutic settings.

2016 to 2021

 

Technical assistance with British Records Association website.

2013 to 2014

 

Member, Expert Advisory Group, East Villa Therapeutic Community.

A proposed dialectical behaviour therapy informed day therapeutic community for men with personality disorders, planned as a joint venture between The Retreat, York, and Community Links.

2012 to 2018

 

Member, Mulberry Bush Organisation

2008 to 2015

 

Committee Member, Information and Communication Officer, Child Care History Network

Founding member of organisation created to provide a setting within which interested persons can share information about the history of child care and develop ways of preserving, valuing and promulgating history.

2007 to 2018

 

Honorary Director, Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments (IHWTE)

A joint initiative of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust and the History of Medicine Unit at the University of Birmingham, based in the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre

2004 to present

 

Trustee, Member of the Committee, The Oral History Society

The national Oral History organisation (Registered Charity Number 2888050)

2000 to 2006

 

Trustee/Director, Arbours Association of Therapeutic Communities

The Arbours Association was a Registered Charity, Number 263608, with therapeutic communities in North London in which men and women in emotional, psychological and social difficulties could live in supportive therapeutic environments

1998 to 2021

 

Gloucestershire Representative, Oral History Society Regional Network

The Oral History Society Regional Network is a network of practicing oral historians who ‘are all members of the Society experienced in oral history and willing to assist anyone new to oral history or wanting to discuss their work in detail with someone who is sympathetic and knowledgeable.’ The role is a varied, and fully voluntary one. The Heritage Lottery Fund refers applicants and potential applicants to Network members for feedback and advice, and Networkers generally offer practical and theoretical advice and information to local history groups, students and academics; loaning equipment where appropriate, and providing informal tutoring and training where appropriate.

2005 to 2007

1998 to 2000

 

Trustee, Member of Executive Committee, Association of Therapeutic Communities

Now amalgamated with the Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities to form The Consortium for Therapeutic Communities (TCTC), the Association of Therapeutic Communities was the main British membership organisation for therapeutic communities and individuals who were involved, for the most part, with adults in ‘democratic’ therapeutic communities. I was an ATC member of the Joint Associations Working Group which in 2007 laid the foundations for the ultimate merger with the Charterhouse Group to form TCTC.

1997 to 2002   Facilitator, oral history sessions, Society of Archivists seminars for newly qualified/recently qualified archivists.

1996 to 2000

 

Director/Co-ordinator, "Celebrating Memory: An oral history of the Society of Archivists and its Members"

Society of Archivists 50th anniversary celebration project. For further information, see the project Handbook.

1995 to 2000

 

Minutes Secretary and then Secretary, Society of Archivists Film and Sound Group

Editorial

2005 to present

 

International Board Member, Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations

Originally published by the Association of Therapeutic Communities, now published by Emerald on behalf of The Consortium for Therapeutic Communities

2001 to 2004

 

Founding and Executive Editor, Joint Newsletter (of the Association of Therapeutic Communities / Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities / Planned Environment Therapy Trust)

This was the first major collaborative and extended project of the three main charities devoted to therapeutic community in Britain, and made it possible to showcase the richness of the shared therapeutic community heritage, while bringing archival concerns and a variety of new voices into print. All twelve issues are online at https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130412185120/http://archive.pettrust.org.uk/jointnewsletter/.

1999 to 2002

 

Reviews Editor, Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations

Published by the Association of Therapeutic Communities

1997 to 2005

 

Member, Editorial Group, Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations

Published by the Association of Therapeutic Communities

1994 to 2001

 

Editor, Newsletter of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre

https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130412183843/http://archive.pettrust.org.uk/news.htm

1986 to 1990

 

Founding Co-editor, member of Editorial Group, Talking Folklore

Journal of the British Folk Studies Forum.

Local Community, General

1990 to 2008

 

Founding Trustee of the Guild of Handicraft Trust, Reg. No. 1007696.

Based in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, we formed the Trust in 1990 to preserve, document and help to bring to the notice of the public the legacy of craft and design produced in the North Cotswolds. With the help of a substantial grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Trust adapted a tithe barn within Chipping Campden to create the Court Barn Museum, a regional archive, library, museum and educational centre devoted to Art, Craft and Design in the North Cotswolds.

 

1999 to 2005

 

Dumbleton Cricket Club, Dumbleton, Gloucestershire

Taught cricket and team skills to under-9s at Dumbleton Cricket Club (summers only, on one of the most beautiful village cricket grounds in England). It began as a way to occupy my four year old son while his sister took part in the big children's cricket, but children accrued, and I found myself taking weekly groups. Thank goodness for a background in baseball and Little League.

 

1999 to 2003

 

Parent Governor, Oak Hill Church of England Primary School, Alderton, Gloucestershire

Member of Board of Governors, with special responsibility for Performance Management and web-site

 

2002, May to June

  Local community oral history workshop leader Series of oral history workshops with volunteers in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, as part of Heritage Lottery Fund funded “Awards for All” oral history project.

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

2011

  "Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children: An oral history of residential therapeutic child care, c. 1930-c.1980" HG-08-16728: Final Report to the Heritage Lottery Fund Covering the period January 2010 – October 2011 (3rd edition). Adobe pdf document from otherpeopleschildren website

1997

 

Celebrating Memory: An oral history of the Society of Archivists and its members. Handbook...

Includes “Some Themes in the History of the Society of Archivists”, “Chronology of the Society of Archivists 1946-1980”

1991

 

The Imperilled Inheritance: Dialect and Folklife Studies at the University of Leeds 1946-1962. Harold Orton and the English Dialect Survey (Folklore Society Publications, London).

 

Edited Monographs

1994/1995

 

Memories of an Old Campdonian, by Fred Coldicott

(Campden and District Historical and Archaeological Society, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire). 2nd edition 1995.

 

1990

 

Residential Experience

(Association of Workers for Maladjusted Children)

Collected papers on therapeutic residential work with emotionally and behaviourally disturbed children.

 

1986/1997

 

A Child in Arcadia: The Chipping Campden Boyhood of H.T. Osborn 1902-1907

(Campden and District Historical and Archaeological Society, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire). 2nd edition, 1997.

Edited letters from H.T. Osborn to Craig Fees and others, with editor’s Introduction.

 

1985

 

Local Studies by the students in Mrs. Thorpe's third and fourth year class, St. James' School, Chipping Campden, Glos.

Privately printed, using photocopier. Copy deposited in Gloucestershire Archives.

 

Reports

1985  

FOLK MEMORY IN A NORTH COTSWOLD COMMUNITY: A Report to the Folklore Society Concerning a Research Award Made for the Year 1984-1985

 

Book endorsements/cover reviews

2022

  R.D. Hinshelwood and Luca Mingarelli (eds.), Learning from Action: Working with the Non-Verbal, Phoenix Publishing House

2019

 

Gibbs Williams with Joel Samberg, Smack in the Middle: My Turbulent Time Treating Heroin Addicts at Odyssey House, History Publishing Company 

Introductions and Afterwords

2009

  "Introduction to the IHWTE Publication Series", in Tony Rees, "An Obscure Philanthropist": Frank Mathews 1871-1948, Castle View Books (Leominster), pp. 241-243

1994

 

"Editor's Introduction", in Fred Coldicott, Memories of an Old Campdonian Campden and District Historical and Archaeological Society (Chipping Campden)

1986 (1997)

 

 "Introduction", in H.T. Osborn, A Child in Arcadia: The Chipping Campden Boyhood of H.T. Osborn 1902-1907, and "Editor's Note to the Second Edition" [1997], Campden and District Historical and Archaeological Society (Chipping Campden).

Papers in edited books

2020   "Dockar-Drysdale, Barbara", in D.T. Cook, ed., The Sage Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies, Sage, Vol. 2, pp. 667-669.
2018   with Alice Sampson, "The Origins and Formation of The Mulberry Bush School", in J. Diamond, ed., 70 Years of the Mulberry Bush School, Mulberry Bush Organisation, Chapter 3, pp. 37-50 [Although a named co-author, and therefore in this list (because I am slightly obsessive), the piece was heavily edited after submission, and not seen before publication]

1996

 

“Tourism and the Politics of Authenticity in a North Cotswold Town”, in Tom Selwyn, ed., The Tourist Image: Myths and Myth Making in Tourism (John Wiley and Sons, Chichester), pp. 121-146.

Articles in journals

     
2023  

Craig Fees and David Kennard, "Classic Text No. 133: ‘Maxwell Jones and the Therapeutic Community’, by David Millard (1996)",  History of Psychiatry, published online: December 30, 2022; doi:10.1177/0957154X221140734. Physical publication:

2023   John Hall, Neil Armstrong, Peter Agulnik, Craig Fees, David Kennard, Jonathan Leach and David Millard,  "The processes and context of innovation in mental healthcare: Oxfordshire as a case study", History of Psychiatry,  published online: December 30, 2022; doi:10.1177/0957154X221140736. Physical publication:
2022  

Archives and museums: social change and social justice”, Oral History Journal 50:1, pp. 127-135, Review essay on: David A Wallace, Wendy M Duff, Renée Saucier and Andrew Flinn (eds), Archives, Recordkeeping and Social Justice, Abingdon: Routledge, 2020, and Adele Chynoweth, Bernadette Lynch, Klaus Petersen and Sarah Smed (eds), Museums and Social Change: Challenging the Unhelpful Museum, Abingdon: Routledge, 2020

2019  

"Gloucestershire: Planned Environment Therapy Trust", Current British Work, Oral History 47:1 (Spring 2019), pp. 13-15

2015

 

R.D. Hinshelwood and Craig Fees, "Joint responsibility as an attitude of mind (working alongside) a letter by David Wills in the PETT archives", Therapeutic Communities 36:3, pp. 186-191

2006

 

RadioTC International”, Oral History 34:2, pp. 18-20

2003

  "Introduction" to two archive articles by Richard Crocket, "Notes on the architectural requirements of the therapeutic community approach to psychiatry in district general hospitals" (1972) and "Therapeutic community adaptation of standard plans for district general hospital psychiatric wards" (1973), Therapeutic Communities 24:3, pp. 227-231

2003

 

Preface: Unpublished Classics: “Children’s Hostels” by Arthur T. Barron (1943)”, Therapeutic Communities 22:4, pp. 292-295

 

1999

 

"Obituary: Dr. Josephine Lomax-Simpson - 'Doc' (11 March 1925 - 25 May 1999), Therapeutic Communities 20:3 (1999), pp. 231-236.

 

1998   Book Review, German Volkskunde: A Decade of Theoretical Confrontation, Debate and Reorientation (1967-1977) (Folklore Studies in Translation), edited and translated by James R. Dow and Hnnjost Lixfeld, Indiana University Press. Bloomington, Indiana, 1986., Folklore 99:2, pp. 263-264

1998

 

From the Archives 3”, Therapeutic Communities 19:3 pp. 247-248

 

1998

 

‘“No Foundation All the Way Down the Line”: History, Memory, and ‘milieu therapy’ from the view of a specialist archive in Britain’, Therapeutic Communities 19:2, pp. 167-178.

 

1998

 

“From the Archive [#2]”, Therapeutic Communities 19:1, pp. 65-66

 

1997

 

“From the archives [#1]”, Therapeutic Communities 18:4, pp. 310-311

 

1996

 

“Obituaries: Appreciation [Marie Slocombe]”, Folk Music Journal 7:2, pp. 272-273

1994

 

“Damn St. George! Some Neglected Home Truths in the History of British Folk Drama, or Bring Out the Dead” Traditional Drama 3, pp. 1-14.

 

1991

 

“Maxwell Jones: Bibliography: Papers, Lectures and Other Publications”, International Journal of Therapeutic Communities 12:2/3, pp. 157-167.

 

1991

 

The Historiography of Dialectology”, Lore and Language 10:2, pp. 67-74.

 

1991

 

The Greek Mummers: A Challenge”, Folklore 102:1, pp. 108-110

[In which I made a £50 challenge which was not taken up, and I guess we can consider expired]

1990

 

Reflections of a Folklorist in a Residential Therapeutic Community for Emotionally Deprived and Disturbed Children”, Maladjustment and Therapeutic Education 8 (2), pp. 68-73. Reprinted in Folklore in Use 1 (1993).

 

1989

 

“Mummers and Momoeri: A Response”, Folklore 100 (2), pp. 240-247.

 

1989

 

“Review of 'Tales Until Dawn: Sgeul gu Latha: The World of a Cape Breton Gaelic Story-Teller', by Joe Neil MacNeil (translated and edited by John Shaw)”, Reading Folklore 3, pp. 33-36

1989

 

“Glances Through Periodicals” Literature Review, "Indo-European Origins...Fieldwork", Reading Folklore 3, pp. 17-24

1989

 

“Review of 'The Forbidden Zone' by Michael Lesy”, Reading Folklore 3, pp. 9-11

1989

 

“Review of 'UFOs 1947-1987: The 40-Year Search for an Explanation', compiled and edited by Hilary Evans, with John Spencer”, Reading Folklore 3, pp. 1-5

1989

 

“Tradition/Modern”, Talking Folklore 6, pp. 57-63

1988   Editorial cartoon, "Fieldwork Issue", Talking Folklore 5, front cover.
1988   "Review of 'German Volkskunde: A Decade of Theoretical Confrontation, Debate and Reorientation (1967-1977)' edited and translated by James R. Dow and Hannjost Lixfeld", Folklore 99:2, pp. 263-264.

1988

 

“Review of 'Comparative Mythology, by Jaan Puhvel”, Reading Folklore 2, pp. 21-32

1988

 

Community Folklore: Folk Memory in a North Cotswold Community”, Talking Folklore 1 (4), pp. 22-38. [For the full report, see here]

1988

 

“Maypole Dance in the 20th Century: Further Studies of A North Cotswold Town”, Traditional Dance 5/6, pp. 97-134.

1988  

"Cecil Sharp in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire", Folk Song Research, 6:3 (July 1988), pp. 58-61

1987-88

 

“Review: Staffordshire Folk Drama, by Alex Helm”, Reading Folklore 1, pp. 7-8

1986-87

 

“The Americanisation of Britain: On the Offensive”, Talking Folklore 1:2, pp. 25-33

1986-87

 

“Introduction”, Talking Folklore 1:2, pp. 1-2

1986   "Review of 'The Early Plays of Robin Hood' by David Wiles", Folklore 97:1, pp. 114-115.

1986

 

“A Reply to Stephen Sayers”, Talking Folklore 1:1, pp. 29-31

1986

 

Gordon Ashman, Craig Fees and Steve Roud, “Introduction”, Talking Folklore 1:1, pp. 1-5

Articles in Newsletters

2023   "A brief (rough) history of the Caldecott / Community / Association website",
Caldecott Association Newsletter, March 2023
2018   "In the Archive and Study Centre", PETT eNewsletter 37. December 11, 2018. THANKYOU!

2005

 

Insight into an archive specialising in records devoted to work with disturbed, delinquent and distressing people”, ARC: Archives, Records Management and Conservation No, 196: December, pp. 4-5

2004

 

Hello, I must be going” [Editorial], Joint Newsletter 12, pp. 2-4

 

2004

 

Review of Face to Face With Children by Joel Kanter, Joint Newsletter 11, p. 37

 

2004

 

What is an archive for?Joint Newsletter 10, p. 48

 

2003  

"The Archivist Speaks", Joint Newsletter 8, p. 38

 

2003

 

Wellcome Witness Seminar: February 18, 2003. ‘Beyond the asylum: anti-psychiatry and care in the community”, Joint Newsletter 7, p. 16.

 

2003  

Anon [Craig Fees], "a pause in the day's occupation"Joint Newsletter 7, March 2003, p. 54 [on Enid Blyton and therapeutic community]

2003

 

Harry Wilmer and ‘People Need People’” and “Dr. Harry Wilmer, interviewed by Craig Fees”, Joint Newsletter 7, pp. 55-56.

 

2003

 

An Engaged Archive and Study Centre" [A brief article originally written for the Society of Archivists' Specialist Repository Group Newsletter.]

 

2002

 

"Oral History, Adding Value, and Archives", Film and Sound Group News 16 (June 2002), pp. 8-10

 

2002

 

Archivist/Director’s Report”, Joint Newsletter 5, pp. 23-27

 

2001

 

"Quality Network of Therapeutic Communities Launched: The Community of Communities’ – 26.10.01", The Clinical Governance Support Service Bulletin, Number 21:November, pp.3-4

 

2001

 

Classic Turns 30 – Maurice Bridgeland’s Pioneer Work With Maladjusted ChildrenJoint Newsletter 3, p. 30.

 

2000

 

"Disasters, Major and Minor", Film and Sound Group News 13 (December 2000), pp. 3-5; reprinted, with permission, as “Disasters, Near and Far”, in the Newsletter and Annual Report: From the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre 5 (December 2000) .

 

1999

 

"Celebrating Memory"/ "OHF-Online: Oral History Forum Online", Film and Sound Group News 10 (June 1999), pp. 8-10.

 

1998

 

"Oral History Questionnaire" / "The Film and Sound Group Web-site" / "Celebrating Memory", Film and Sound Group News 9 (December 1998), pp. 1-3.

 

1991

 

“Sources for the Mumming in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire 1860-1900”, Roomer 8:1, pp. 10-12

1990   "Letter from Craig Fees", Dear Mr. Thoms #17, 1990

1990

 

“BBC and Mumming No. 3: An Initial List”, Roomer 7:4, pp. 58-66

1989

 

“The BBC and Mumming no. 2: The BBC's Influence on Folk Customs: A Case”, Roomer 7:2, pp. 23-26

1988

 

“The BBC and Mumming No. 1”, Roomer. The Newsletter of the Traditional Drama Research Group 7:1, pp. 2-9

1986

 

“Local Customs: Camden [sic] Maypole Dance IV: Between the Wars”, Folkwrite 32, pp. 13

1986

 

“Local Customs: Campden Maypole Dance III”, Folkwrite 28, pp. 16

1986

 

“Local Customs: The Guild of Handicraft”, Folkwrite 26, pp. 11

1986

 

“Local Customs: The Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, Maypole Dance”, Folkwrite: The Folk Magazine for Gloucestershire 23, pp. 31

1986

 

“Correspondence”, Roomer 6:6, pp.55-56

1986

 

“Correspondence”, Roomer 6:3, pp. 16-17

1986

 

“Review: Ancient and Medieval Theatre: A Historiographical Handbook by Ronald W. Vince (1984)”, Roomer 6:3, pp.18-22

1985

 

“Notes and Queries”, Roomer 5:3, p. 30

1985

 

“Craig Fees replies [to letter from E.C. Cawte]”, Roomer 5:3, pp. 28-29

1984

 

Steve Roud and Craig Fees, “Notes on a Quest for Dragons”, Roomer 4:6, p. 61

1984

 

“Obituary: George Richard Greenall (19th October 1909 - 18th October 1984)”, Roomer 4:6, pp. 53-54

1984

 

“Toward Establishing the Study of Folk Drama as a Science”, Roomer 4:5, pp.41-51

Online

2022  

Notes, as preface, to Pat Mitchell, "Mother and Daughter: An account of triumph and tragedy", on Wennington School, Wetherby, Yorkshire, 1940-75 website (https://wenningtonschool.org.uk).

2021   The Audacity of Social Justice and Social Change”, a Prequel to "REVIEW ESSAY: Archives and museums: social change and social justice", ORAL HISTORY 50:1 (2022), pp. 127-135, with an introduction and brief history.

2010

 

Published as "A Fearless Frankness" in Children Webmag (September) https://thetcj.org/child-care-history-policy/a-fearless-frankness

Presented (2009) as “A Fearless Frankness: The professional formation of psychiatrist Donald Winnicott, and a crucial lost episode in the history of
therapeutic residential child care”

2008

 

"Lost Bridges and Residential Therapeutic Child Care: Howard Jones (1918 –2007) and Reluctant Rebels"

Published May 1, 2008 in Children Webmag https://thetcj.org/child-care-history-policy/lost-bridges-and-residential-therapeutic-child-carehoward-jones-1918-–2007-and-reluctant-rebels

1997   Comment: Denis Carroll and the Second Northfield Experiment. First contribution to a From the Archives feature on the early Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre website. 

Unpublished presentations

2016

  "Creating places of belonging: Reflections on 'Therapeutic living with other people's children' - a transformational experience". Conference: ‘Global Futures’, Archives and Records Association Annual Conference, London, September 2, 2016

2016

 

"Background, evolution and issues in an online oral history course". Conference: ‘Beyond Text in the Digital Age? Oral History, Images and the Written Word’, Oral History Society Annual Conference, London, July 9, 2016

Unpublished first version

Unpublished, shortened, presented version

2015  

"Writing history: using archive weekends to collaborate with therapeutic communities", Writing Society, 2015 Semester 2, University of Central Lancashire, 25 March 2015

(Slide 10 from the presentation at the bottom of this page)

2014

  "Archive problems are fun problems": Building an archive service around traumatic experience: Continuity, change, and thoughts towards the future". Conference: ‘Survival of the Fittest: strengths, skills and priorities for 2014 and beyond’, Archives and Records Association Annual Conference, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, August 29, 2014

2014

  "'No Foundation All the Way Down the Line' Revisited: Analysis and reflections on 30 years of working with and building community processes through oral history" Conference: "Community Voices: Oral History on the Ground", Oral History Society Annual Conference, Manchester, July 19, 2014

 

2013

 

"Getting it Right; Getting it Wrong: Archives, Internet, Oral History, and Accessibility in the 'Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children' project". Prepared for 'Reclaiming Lost Childhoods – Seminar 3': "The Past Online: Developing a Web-based Care Archive", 5th September 2013, University of Strathclyde [not delivered due to car failure]

 

2011

 

"The 'Therapeutic Living' project: Origins and Overview", presentation as part of the project conference, "The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting: Telling the story and sharing the experiences of residential child care", University of Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham

 

2010

 

"Case Study: 'Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children'", presentation at "From Coalface to Facebook? Using new social media and technology to record, remember and share child care experience" Child Care History Network Annual Conference

2009

 

A Fearless Frankness: The professional formation of psychiatrist Donald Winnicott, and a crucial lost episode in the history of therapeutic residential child care.

Paper presented at "Therapeutic Community, The Archive, and Historical Research" a one-day workshop organised by Dr. Jonathan Toms at the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick on November 21st, 2009. An earlier version was presented in May 2009 at the University of Stirling in the Department of Applied Social Science seminar series.

 

2008

 

"How do we know who cared? and what they cared for?" A life story approach to archives of therapeutic environments and a celebration of the people who saved them"

Paper presented at the Oral History Society's 2008 annual conference, "WHO CARED? ORAL HISTORY, CARING, HEALTH AND ILLNESS: Marking 60 years of the National Health Service"
held in the Medical School of the University of Birmingham, July 4-5 2008

2002

 

"Meditation on Methodology", Oral History Society Network annual meeting, 28.9.2002.

 

1999

 

This Land is Your Land…a specialist archive and study centre for ‘alternative’ therapeutic and educational environments”, Oral History Society Conference, 15.5.1999

1999

 

“Open or Closed? Access in small repositories”, Religious Archives Group/Charity Archivists and Records Managers Group Conference ‘Mind and Body: The Church and Health’, held at Partnership House, London, 27.4.1999. [Published by the Religious Archives Group, but I can't provide a citation]

Presentation of my experience in the creation and use of an archive web-site, and its impact on the Archive and its work.

1998

 

Celebrating Memory: An Oral History of the Society of Archivists and its Members. An illustrated Report”, Society of Archivists Annual Conference, September 9, 1998, Sheffield

 

1998

 

Untitled presentation ["Arguing for oral history as part of the archivist's everyday toolkit"], Society of Archivists Scottish Regional Meeting, May 23, 1998, The Burn,Glenesk, Brechin, Angus.

 

1997

 

“Setting up a web-site by a small archive”, paper commissioned by Simon Wilson for the Business Archives Council

 

1996

 

Invited discussant on “Specialist Repositories”, Society of Archivists South West Regional Meeting, Wells.

 

1993   "The English Folklore Survey". Paper presented at the University of Glamorgan, June 5-6.
1990  

“‘Yes, but why did you do that, Mr. Jones’ - The Psycho-Dynamic Trend in Folklore Theory”, paper delivered at the “Folklore, Oral History, Popular Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” conference, Sheffield

1990

 

"That's A-Buggered It": the BBC and local culture, c. 1930-c.1960", Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Lecture by Craig Fees in the library at Cecil Sharp House, London, 20 April 1990
Recorded by Clare Gilliam

1990

 

“Shut Thee B---- Mouth”, Campden and District Historical Society, Town Hall, Chipping Campden, 15 February 1990

1985

 

“Campden vs. Ashbee”, Campden Town Hall, 19 September 1985

1985  

"What am I doing here? - A Nascent Folklorist Looks at his Work", Folklore Society pre-AGM Conference, 16 March 1985

1984

 

"Overlooking the Obvious". Paper read at the annual Traditional Drama Conference, University of Sheffield.

"The Paper which I originally prepared I am not now going to deliver, mainly because of the discussion we are going to have this afternoon [Traditional Drama Studies: A Critical Discussion]. This Paper that I am doing now has to do explicitly with the field of folk drama research, and I am hoping to put that whole field of research into question." [first paragraph, from transcription by Ron Shuttleworth, 1998].

1983  

"The Folk Play and Analogues: Performance and Chairty in Chipping Campden". Paper read at the annual Traditional Drama Conference, University of Sheffield, 22 October 1983.

"This paper presents an examination of the roots of the Folk Play's tradition in the pub, in public places, using local sources of information. Furthermore, it presents a study of its 'orgins', beginning with the question: Why don't we have it in the United States of America?"

Unpublished and unpresented presentations

2004    The Joint Newsletter [prepared for a joint presentation proposed for the 2004 Windsor Conference]
2003  

"Digging the Past, Seeding the Future", Paper proposal for Windsor Conference 2003 [not presented]

 

Broadcasts

1996, May 7

 

‘Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre’, BBC Radio Gloucestershire

 

1989, September 6

 

“Timewatch: The Land of Lost Content”, BBC 2 (television),

Local history expert” on Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, the Guild of Handicraft, Tourism, Incomers, and myths of empire and internal migration.

 

1989, December 12

 

‘English Dialect Survey’, BBC Radio Cumbria,

For one half of the broadcast, including the warm-up and prequel to being on air as such:

SERIES EDITOR

Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre Online Publications

[Please note: The PETT website was taken off air in 2020. Unless I've updated them to the Internet Archive, the links below will not work. (you could try your luck: copy the url and paste it in at http://waybackmachine.org)]

(original monographs and papers commissioned for Internet publication by the Archive and Study Centre)

Dennie Briggs

   

2005

 

Dennie Briggs, “Social Learning in Practice”, http://web.archive.org/web/20190623181950/http://www.pettrust.org.uk/images/archiveresources/library/denniebriggs/pubs-dbriggs-sociallearning.pdf

2004

 

Dennie Briggs, “What would a Poet know about Psychology?” http://web.archive.org/web/20190623121520/http://www.pettrust.org.uk/images/archiveresources/library/denniebriggs/pubs-dbriggs-poetand.pdf

 

2004

 

Dennie Briggs, “In School 4: Youth Action Teams” http://web.archive.org/web/20190623134700/http://www.pettrust.org.uk/images/archiveresources/library/denniebriggs/pubs-dbriggs-inschool4.pdf

 

2001

 

Dennie Briggs, “In School III: Enlarging Learning Communities” https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130412185028mp_/http://archive.pettrust.org.uk/pubs-dbriggs-inschool3.pdf

 

2001

 

Dennie Briggs, “In School II: Growing Learning Communities” https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130412184823mp_/http://archive.pettrust.org.uk/pubs-dbriggs-inschool2.pdf

 

2001

 

Dennie Briggs, “In School : Creating a Learning Community” https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130412185004mp_/http://archive.pettrust.org.uk/pubs-dbriggs-inschool.pdf

 

2001

 

Dennie Briggs, “In the Navy II: Therapeutic Community at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan, 1956-1958).” https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130412185021mp_/http://archive.pettrust.org.uk/pubs-dbriggs-navy2pdf.pdf

 

2001

 

Dennie Briggs “In the Navy: Therapeutic Community Experiments at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Oakland, California, 1955-1956.” https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130412184925mp_/http://archive.pettrust.org.uk/pubs-dbriggs-navy1.pdf

 

2000

 

Dennie Briggs, "In Prison: Transitional Therapeutic Communities (Research and Demonstration Projects in the California Department of Corrections, 1958-1965) Parts I,II,III. https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130412184940mp_/http://archive.pettrust.org.uk/pubs-dbriggs-inprison1.pdf

 

David Clark

   
2006   David Clark, Sixty Years of Social Psychiatry 1945-2005, https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130412190952/http://archive.pettrust.org.uk/pubs-dhclark-sixtyyears.htm

2005

 

David Clark, Psychiatric Halfway House,1967, MD Thesis,University of Edinburgh, https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130412185221/http://archive.pettrust.org.uk/survey-dhclark-mdthesis.htm

2005

 

David Clark, “Therapeutic Community Memories: How we learned to operate Therapeutic Communities”, https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130412183805/http://archive.pettrust.org.uk/pubs-dhclark-howwelearned.htm

 

2005

 

David Clark, “Therapeutic Community Memories: Maxwell Jones”, https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130412183732/http://archive.pettrust.org.uk/pubs-dhclark-maxjones.htm

 

2005

 

David Clark, “The Fulbourn Hospital Doctors' Meeting”, https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20130412183757/http://archive.pettrust.org.uk/pubs-dhclark-doctorsmeeting.htm

 

SEMINAR, CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

2021-2022  

Member, organising Group, "Home"

Two day Oral History Society Annual Conference, held at London Metropolitan University. Initially planned for 2021; delayed by pandemic.

2019  

Co-organiser, "Archives of Change, Archives for Change" 

with Dr. David Jones, a residential workshop/seminar in partial fulfillment of a jointly held and co-directed British Academy grant: "Charting the links between community therapies, psychiatric diagnosis and mental health policy: A Study of the archives of Hawkspur Camp (1936-1940) and Mulberry Bush School (1948-2000)".  We brought together archive practitioners, therapists, social workers, academics, and former children in care to explore together in mixed professional/background groups historical case files, to learn from and about:  one another's knowledge, ways of seeing and understanding, and insights; the institutions whose archives were being explored; the people immanent in the case files; and how everything changed and did not change over time. Putting health archives to work.

2016  

Co-organiser, "Common Roots - Re-creation and Community"

May 10 day conference at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre in partnership with Wennington Old Scholars

2015  

Co-organiser, "Common Roots"

May 13 day conference at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre in partnership with Wennington Old Scholars

2014  

Co-organiser, "Common Roots"

June 11 day conference at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre in partnership with Wennington Old Scholars

2013

 

Organiser: "RADICAL THEN, RADICAL NOW: Care and Education in Communities"

A conference of the Child Care History Network in association with Hilfield Friary, and with the support of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust: to celebrate the centenary of the Little Commonwealth and Homer Lane, and to reflect on the future of residential therapeutic child care and education with a group of leading practitioners, academics, writers and thinkers.

Full conference programme and conference recordings, including participant feedback

2012

 

Member, organising group: "Displaced Childhoods: Oral History and Traumatic Experiences"

Two-day Oral History Society Annual Conference, held at Southampton Solent University

 

2011

 

Member, organising group: "The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting: Telling the story and sharing the experiences of residential child care", University of Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham

Two-day project conference for HLF-supported project "Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children: An oral history of residential therapeutic child care c. 1930 - c. 1980"

 

2010

 

Member, organising group: "From Coalface to Facebook? Using new social media and technology to record, remember and share child care experience"

Child Care History Network Annual Conference

 

2010

 

Member, organising group: "Child Care Records: Use and Access"

Child Care History Network Conference held at the University of Warwick

 

2008

 

Co-organiser: "I am, They Are, We Will Be: Sustainability and Therapeutic Environments"

A seminar of the Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments, in collaboration with the University of Nottingham, exploring the relationship between designing Zero-Carbon Schools, Environmental and Therapeutic Education, Green Farming and Green Therapy. Held at the Barns Conference Centre, Planned Environment Therapy Trust.

 

2008

 

Member, organising group: "Child Care: The Need for History"

Inaugural conference, Child Care History Network

 

2008

 

Member, organising group: "Who Cared? Oral History, Caring, Health and Illness: Marking 60 years of the National Health Service"

Two day Oral History Society Annual Conference, in collaboration with the Medical School, University of Birmingham. Held in the Medical School, University of Birmingham

 

2007

 

Organiser: "If it works..."

Working inaugural conference of the Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments, a Research and Study Centre of the University of Birmingham, hosted by the Planned Environment Therapy Trust. Held at the Barns Conference Centre, Planned Environment Therapy Trust

 

2004

 

Co-organiser: "Miss Britton, I presume..."

A conference celebrating the publication of Joel Kanter's "Face to Face With Children: The life and work of Clare Winnicott" (Karnac Books, London, 2004), with speakers Joel Kanter, Dr. Christopher Reeves and Olive Stevenson. Held at the Barns Conference Centre, Planned Environment Therapy Trust

 

2003

 

Conceived and organised: “ATC-in-24”: A celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Association of Therapeutic Communities

A 24 hour, residential working conference involving some sixty people: Founding and early leaders of the Association of Therapeutic Communities, Trustees currently responsible for the business and future of the ATC, guests from other charities in the field, students, researchers and individual members of the ATC. The aim was to bring the diverse constituency of the field together to identify, address, and tackle themes and issues facing therapeutic community and the ATC today, grounded in an opening session of public reminiscence (and argument) by the senior members about the origins, history and vicissitudes of the early ATC, and looking towards the future. It proved a very successful format.

 

2001

 

Conceived and Organised: “Leaderless Group Seminar: Developments in British psychiatry and psychology in the late 1940s and 1950s”, held at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre

The “Leaderless Group” projects aimed to bring academics, students, clinicians, and historians together in shared debate and discussion.

Participants 2001: Dr. Lawrence Friedman (Professor of History, Indiana University), Dr. Robert Hinshelwood (Professor of Psychoanalysis, Essex University), Ben Shephard (author), Nafsika Thalassis (PhD student), Craig Fees [all from 1999, as below]; David Glenister lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at Hull University, pursuing a PhD at the London School of Economics on 'Social Psychiatric Nursing 1948-1969); Nuno Torres, PhD student in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex University; Kevin Polley, Henderson Hospital, pursuing a PhD in the Department of Psychology at University College London on the theme of ‘Mental Representation in Borderline Personality Disorder’; and Steven Dykes, Head of American Theatre Arts at Rose Bruford College and Course Leader for Performance Skills and Theatre Studies in the Department of Professional and Community Education at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

1999

 

Conceived and organised: “Leaderless Group Seminar: Group and military psychiatry in World War II”, held at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre

The “Leaderless Group” projects aimed to bring academics, students, clinicians, and historians together in shared debate and discussion.

Participants 1999: Dr. Lawrence Friedman, Professor of History, University of Indiana, whose massive biography of Erik Erikson was just going to press, and who had just embarked on preliminary research for a new book on the innovations and development of psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy which came out of Britain as a consequence of World War II; Ben Shephard, professional documentary maker, author of the influential book A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists 1914 – 1994 (Jonathan Cape 2000) then in preparation; Dr. Robert Hinshelwood, former Director of the Cassel Hospital, Professor of Psychoanalysis at Essex University, and a Kleinian analyst with a long-standing commitment to the history of the profession; Dr. Lesley Caldwell, practising psychoanalyst, teaching in the Sociology Department at Greenwich University, and working on a history of the Cassel Hospital from the 1940s; psychiatrist Dr. Tom Harrison of the North Birmingham Mental Health Trust, whose major book on World War II psychiatry, Bion, Rickman, Foulkes and the Northfield Experiments: Advancing on a Different Front (Jessica Kingsley, 2000) was then in preparation; students Maria Armstrong, of the Wellcome Institute in London, and Nafsika Thalassis of Imperial College and Queens College London; and Craig Fees, Archivist, Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre.

1995

 

Conceived and organised: Networking organizations, held at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre

Bringing together eleven people from diverse organizations, including the Planned Environment Therapy Trust, the Cassel Hospital, Shotton Hall School, Human Scale Education, Summerhill School Trust, to develop communication and networking.

 

ORAL HISTORY OEUVRE

Recordings to the end of December 2018 (1772 total). 

Recordings made since the end of December 2018, family and personal recordings are not included.

1989 to 2018   Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre General Oral History Collections 1285 audio recordings (flash, audiocassette, DAT, minidisk, reel to reel)145 video recordings (VHS, SVHS, 8mm, DV)

Individual and group interviews, with current and former staff, clients/patients, and others involved with therapeutic community; as well as recordings of events, seminars, meetings and conferences

4 multi-media CD presentations

CD compilations, bringing together oral history, archive, library, and visual material from the Archive and Study Centre collections into self-running inter-active computer-based exhibitions targeted at specific events.

2010-2011

 

"Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children: An oral history of residential therapeutic childcare c. 1930- c. 1980"

92 audio recordings (digital)

Individual and group recordings with former children, staff and family members of therapeutic communities for children and young people, as well as events.

 

1997-1999

 

Celebrating Memory: An oral history of the Society of Archivists and its members”

40 recordings (audiocassette, DAT, and 8mm video)

1981-1989

 

PhD. Research

210 recordings (reel to reel, audiocassette, VHS video)

Published Oral History Transcripts

1998

 

Dr. and Mrs. Howard Jones, interviewed by Craig Fees 29 January 1998. https://web.archive.org/web/20070708044341/http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk/survey-howardjones2-2TCF242.htm

1997

 

Richard Roberts, interviewed by Craig Fees 27 September 1997. https://web.archive.org/web/20070708045032/http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk/survey-forestschool2-2TCF234.htm

1994

 

R.E. Curtis, interviewed by Craig Fees 30 November 1994. https://web.archive.org/web/20070708044508/http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk/survey-northfield2-2TCF124.htm

1991

 

Dennie Briggs, interviewed by Craig Fees 9 August 1991. https://web.archive.org/web/20070708044449/http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk/cf018pdf.pdf

 

WEBSITE AUTHOR/EDITOR

1996 to 2011

 

Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre https://web.archive.org/web/20090110225421/http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk/

1998 to 2004

 

Society of Archivists Film and Sound Group http://web.archive.org/web/20050312162323/http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk/fsg/ (Internet Archive 2005 version)

1999 to 2003

 

The Cassel Hospital http://www.thecasselhospital.org ( Internet Archive 2003 version)

1999 to 2004

 

Association of Therapeutic Communities http://www.therapeuticcommunities.org (Internet Archive 2004 version)

This included subsite for HMP Gartree's Therapeutic Community, http://www.therapeuticcommunities.org/gtc.htm (Internet Archive 2003 version)

2000 to 2005

 

Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities http://www.charterhousegroup.org.uk (Internet Archive 2005 version)

2002 to 2005

 

Planned Environment Therapy Trust http://www.pettrust.org.uk (Internet Archive 2005 version)

2003 to the present   Wennington School (for Wennington Old Scholars) https://www.wenningtonschool.org.uk (a site with a complex history, and contributions from many people)

2005 to 2019

 

Co-Creator, Co-Moderator, Therapeutic Community Open Forum, in partnership with Ian Milne https://web.archive.org/web/20180814214231/http://www.tc-of.org.uk/index.php?title=Main_Page

2006 to 2009

 

RADIOTC INTERNATIONAL. Station Manager. Co-established the RadioTC International wiki sub-site in 2006 in partnership with Ian Milne as a project of the Therapeutic Community Open Forum, in order to make archive and current interviews, lectures, seminars, talks, commentary, and other recorded material available on the Internet, and as programme manager between 2006 and 2009 gathered, prepared, edited, and uploaded 298 individual audio/video programmes from Europe and around the world. http://www.tc-of.org.uk/index.php?title=RadioTC_International [Internet Archive August 31, 2018 version]

2007 to 2011   Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments (IHWTE) http://www.ihwte.org.uk (Internet Archive 2008 version) John Moorhouse set up the wiki, and he and Ian Milne played significant roles in the life of the site

2008 to 2019

 

Child Care History Network https://web.archive.org/web/20180319031110/http://cchn.org.uk/

2009 to 2011

 

Living Digital Archive: Dennie Briggs, in partnership with Ian Milne and Dennie Briggs https://web.archive.org/web/20120625075338/http://www.tc-of.org.uk/dennie_briggs/

https://web.archive.org/web/20150202223514/http://www.denniebriggs.com/archive/

2009 to 2012

 

"Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children: an oral history of residential therapeutic child care c. 1930 to c. 1980" (with community subsites in partnership with community members) 

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20121115100057/http://www.otherpeopleschildren.org.uk/

2011 to the end of 2018

 

Planned Environment Therapy Trust http://www.pettrust.org.uk (Internet Archive 2018 version)

2014-2019   Caldecott Association http://caldecott.org.uk.  (This link will take you to the Internet Archive's earliest save of the website, in 2017). The main figure in the creation and management of the site was Bob Lawton, until his death in 2017, my role up to that point being support. John Moorhouse played a very significant role in support. For an overview of the history of the Caldecott sites, see: Craig Fees, "A Brief (rough) history of the Caldecott / Community / Association website" (2023).
2016 to the end of 2018   Phoenix Unit  http://pettrust.org.uk/phoenix/ (Internet Archive 2019 version)
2020 to the present   Caldecott Association https://caldecottassociation.org.uk
2023-2024  

TC Conversations http://web.archive.org/web/20240502185549/https://tcconversations.org.uk/index.php/bob-david-2012-2014

http://web.archive.org/web/20240502185743/https://tcconversations.org.uk/index.php/blog

 

EMAIL DISCUSSION LIST CREATOR/MANAGER

Archives and history related

2007 to 2018

 

Child Care History Network

1999 to 2005

 

Charity Archivists and Records Managers Group (CHARM)

1998 to 2002

 

Society of Archivists’ Film and Sound Group Committee

1999 to 2002

 

Society of Archivists’ Film and Sound Group Oral History Forum

Oral History-related

1999 to 2015

 

Oral History Society Regional Network

Therapeutic Community-related

2004 to 2018

 

Co-Moderator, Therapeutic Community Open Forum, an email discussion group with associated website (http://www.tc-of.org.uk)

2002 to 2010

 

Association of Therapeutic Communities Research Group

2002 to 2004

 

Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities, Education Directors and Managers Group

2002 to 2004

 

Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities, Finance and Administration Directors and Managers Group

2002 to 2004

 

Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities, Training Directors and Managers’ Group

2002 to 2004

 

Editorial Group, Joint Newsletter of the Association of Therapeutic Communities, Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities, Planned Environment Therapy Trust

2000 to 2004

 

Editorial Group, Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations

1999 to 2004

 

Association of Therapeutic Communities Steering Group

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND CITATIONS

The main payback for archivists is the acknowledgements they and their archives receive when researchers become authors and publish the results of their work. Sometimes it is a simple citation - "I used this archive" or "Thankyou to..." Sometimes it is more detailed. Often it is the only public trace an archivist leaves; and the only direct evidence that what they do is of value to others. Needless to say, acknowledgements are valued and treasured by the archivists themselves.

Student Theses and Dissertations

2020

  Verusca Calabria, Oral Histories of the Nottinghamshire Mental Hospitals: Exploring Memories of Giving and Receiving Care, PhD., Nottingham Trent University.

 

"for his encouragementand support during the first part of this research."

2020   Emily Charkin, Building a community together': past and present meanings of manual work at Kilquhanity School (1940-1996) and Wennington School (1940-1975). Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London)

2019

  Nina MacKenzie, Collaboration and Censorship: A Case Study of Interview Dynamics within the University of Victoria’s Military Oral History Program MLitt., Archives and Records Management, Centre for Archive and Information Studies, University of Dundee.

 

"To my mentor, editor, and academic supervisor...your guidance and endless hours critiquing my drafts have been indispensable and immensely appreciated."

2018

  Thomas Michael Harrison, The Ingrebourne Centre (1954-2005): Vicissitudes in the Life of a Therapeutic Community, PhD., History of Medicine, University of Birmingham.

 

"My first thanks have to go to Craig Fees, archivist at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust, who has been a friend, supporter, advisor and mentor through both this piece of work and my previous study of the Northfield Experiments. It was he who stimulated this research when he informed me of the Richard Crocket Archive that had recently been collected by the Trust."

2018   Jonathan Stephen Roger Leach, "Madness and chaos in the culture of a therapeutic community", Therapeutic Communities, 40:1, pp. 16-24.

2016

  Isobel Toy, Pawprints in the Hospital: The Emergence of Animal-Assisted Therapy 1796-196, Dissertation in part fulfilment of the Degree of Bachelor of Medical Science in the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham

 

2015

  Maria Alba Bosch Borràs, Wirkfaktoren in der Therapeutischen Gemeinschaft - Eine Feldstudie an der HELIOS-Klinik für Psychotherapeutische Medizin und Psychotherapie Bad Grönenbach, Institut für Psychologie, Philosophische Fakultät II, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

 

 
2015   Neil Wharrier Johnson, 'So Peculiarly Its Own': The Theological Socialism of the Labouur Church, PhD, Department of Teology and Religion, University of Birmingham

2013

  Imogen Wiltshire, Painting as Psychotherapy: Arthur Segal's Painting School for Professionals and Non-Professionals (1937-1944), MPhil, History of Art, University of Birmingham."Dr. Craig Fees (Archivist, Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre, Toddington) deserves special mention for facilitating my research, particularly by granting me access to confidential archive material, and along with others at PETT, for making the archive a warm and welcoming research space."

2010

 

Elaine Boyling,Quakerism and Therapeutic Environments: Dynamic Resources in the Management of a Therapeutic Community 1962-1995, Ph.D., The History of Medicine Unit, School of Health and Population Studies, The University of Birmingham

 

2008  

Ravinder Kaur,  Personal Growth in Transitional Spaces: The contribution of Harold Bridger to the Therapeutic Community Movement, University of Birmingham School of Medicine/History of Medicine Unit, intercalated year in History of Medicine

"Dr Craig Fees at the Planned Environment and Therapy Trust (PETT) has been incredibly encouraging and supportive of this undertaking, as have the Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments (IHWTE)."

2008

 

Peter Heye, Dubbeldiagnose vanuit een milieutherapeutische benadering.Een onderzoek in het Psychiatrisch Centrum Sleidinge., 3de licentie Pedagogische Wetenschappen, Optie Orthopedagogiek, University of Ghent

2008  

Stijn Vandevelde, Maxwell Jones and His Work in the Therapeutic Community, Master in Educational Sciences (Orthopedagogics), Faclty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Belgium. English translation from the Dutch of Vandevelde 1999 (see below).

"Moreover, I am very grateful to Dr. Craig Fees for all his efforts to make this translation possible and for giving me the opportunity to visit the PETT Archive and Study Centre on several occasions.

2004

 

Maddy Loat, Therapeutic Community Members’ Experiences of Mutual Support Processes: A Phenomenological Analysis, Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, University College London

I would like to thank Dr. Craig Fees at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust for nurturing my interest in TCs, for connecting me with numerous people, organisations and resources, and for his enthusiasm and generosity of spirit.”

2002

 

Helen Spandler, Asylum to Action: Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and Beyond, Ph.D. thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University

Craig Fees and John Hopton, for information and gentle words of advice.”

2002

 

Axel D. Kühn, A.S. Neill und Summerhill: Eine Rezeptions- und Wirkungsanalyse Phd. dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen) [http://w210.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/dbt/volltexte/2002/609]

Darüber hinaus gilt mein Dank einer großen Zahl von Personen, die mich im bald zehnjährigen Prozeß der forschenden Beschäftigung mit Neill und Summerhill in vielfältiger Weise unterstützt haben; sei es, daß sie mir Material zur Verfügung gestellt haben oder im Gedankenaustausch über das Thema Ideen und Anregungen beigetragen haben: Craig Fees am Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive, der mich auf meiner Forschungsreise mit Material und menschlicher Unterstützung versorgt hat und schließlich mein Summary in "proper English" verwandelte…”

 

1999

 

Keith Burnett, How do users perceive the experience of drug/alcohol rehabilitation in a therapeutic community, MA thesis, Durham University

In making this research possible I am grateful to Dr. Craig Fees and the Planned Environment Therapy Trust for assistance and the use of their archive…”

1999

 

Stijn Vandevelde, Die Studie van Maxwell Jones en zijn werk in de therapeutische gemeenschap, Universiteit Gent, Belgium

1998

 

David Bishop, The Role of the Archivist in the Collection of Oral History, MA thesis, University of Liverpool

Many professional archivists provided me with assistance during the writing of this dissertation, in the form of advice and answers to my frequent questions. Thanks must go to all of them, most notably Dr. Craig Fees, Archivist at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust”

Books and Monographs

2022   Pat Mitchell, "Mother and Daughter: An account of triumph and tragedy", [online] https://wenningtonschool.org.uk/index.php/wennington-old-scholars-committee/news-and-events/255-mother-and-daughter-an-account-of-triumph-and-tragedy-2
2022   Christopher Scanlon and John Adlam, Psycho-social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence: Un-housed Minds and Inhospitable Environments, Routledge

2018

 

Lisa Farley, "Childhood beyond Pathology: A Psychoanalytic Study of Development and Diagnosis", SUNY Press.

"Craig Fees offered his enormous expertise during my time at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre in Cheltenham."

2018  

Kalina Stamenova and R. D. Hinshelwood, eds., "Methods of Research into the Unconscious: Applying Psychoanalytic Ideas to Social Science", Routledge

"Trying to map a constantly changing and evolving diverse field is both a challenging and immensely rewarding task, so my deepest gratitude to all those who agreed to participate in the endeavour and who have helped us on the way – the contributors to the book and the numerous colleagues who commented, critiqued, and provided invaluable suggestions – Mike Roper, Mark Stein, Lynne Layton, and Craig Fees, among many others."

2017

 

Neil Johnson, "The Labour Church: The Movement & Its Message", Routledge. "Dr. Craig Fees of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust"

2016

 

Iain Robertson, "Landscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914: The later Highland Land Wars", Routledge.

2015

 

Daniel Benveniste, The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna and W. Ernest Freud: Three Generations of Psychoanalysis, International Psychoanalytic Books (New York)

2013

 

Jonathan Toms, Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain, Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke).

"I would like to express my sincere thanks to the Planned Environment Therapy Trust at Toddington, in Gloucestershire. They provide a warm, engaging and stimulating environment to everyone who visits...Craig Fees, in particular, gave me much help and advice. I have benefited greatly from his knowledge".

2013

 

Anne Horne and Monica Lanyado (eds.), Winnicott's Children: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents, Routledge. "...offer special thanks to Dr Craig Fees, Archivist at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre, Cheltenham, UK, for access to the Winnicott radio recordings."

2012

 

Rachelle H. Saltzman, A Lark for the Sake of Their Country: The 1926 General Strike Volunteers in Folklore and Memory", Oxford University Press.

2012

 

J. Leigh Hirst, The Tormented Prince: An Abstract of the Journals, Memoirs, Publications and Personal Notes of Mark Holloway, Brimstone Press

2012

 

James M. Harding, Cutting Performances: Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant Garde, University of Michigan Press

"Although there are numerous sources to back up this observation, it was initially brought to my attention by Dr. Craig Fees in an interview with him on July 21, 2004. Dr. Fees is the archivist at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust in Cheltenham where the archives of the Dialectics of Liberation Congress are Held. I am extremely grateful to him not only for the generous assistance he provided me in the archives but also for the insightful conversations I had with him about the Congress, its organizers, and its participants."

2012

 

Kate Bassett, In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller, Oberon Books (London)

2011

 

Maddy Loat, Mutual Support and Mental Health:A Route to Recovery, Jessica Kingsley (London)

"Craig Fees at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust who generously became a much-needed guide to the therapeutic community world and provided a wealth of information"

2010

 

Lois H. Silverman, The Social Work of Museums, Routledge

2008  

John Harris Loflin, A History of Democratic Education in American Public Schools: Schools in a Democracy & Democracy in Schools + Discussions and recommendations concerning issues of democratic education in urban schools and civic engagement by urban students, April 20 2008, POLITEIA Democratic Education Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, www.politeia.org.br

2007

 

Pam Schweitzer, Reminiscence Theatre: Making Theatre from Memories, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

2006

 

Helen Spandler, Asylum to Action: Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and Beyond, Jessica Kingsley (New York)

"Craig Fees and the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre

2005

 

Judith Issroff, with Christopher Reeves and Bruce Hauptman, Donald Winnicott and John Bowlby: Personal and Professional Perspectives, Karnac Books (London)

2005

 

Judith Stinton, A Dorset Utopia: The Little Commonwealth and Homer Lane, Black Dog Books (Norwich)

Finally I would like to thank Craig Fees, archivist of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust, and his staff for their kindness and interest. I have had many conversations about Homer Lane with Craig Fees, who has provided a different and valuable perspective on this fascinating man.”

2004

 

David Gribble, Lifelines, Libertarian Education (London)

2004   The Archives Task Force, Listening to the Past, Speaking to the Future: Report of the Archives Task Force, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)

2003

 

Ruth Wyner, From the Inside: Dispatches from a Women’s Prison, Aurum Press (London)

 

2003

 

Dennie Briggs, A Life Well-Lived: Maxwell Jones, a Memoir, Jessica Kingsely Publishers (London) [citation]

2003

 

Paul Willetts, Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia: the bizarre life of writer, actor, Soho dandy Julian Maclaren-Ross, Dewi Lewis Publishing (Stockport)

2002

 

Vicki Coppock and John Hopton, Critical Perspectives on Mental Health, Routledge

2000

 

Jeremy Harvey, Marion Dunlop: Teacher and Healer, George Mann Publications (Winchester)

2000

 

Tom Harrison, Bion, Rickman, Foulkes and the Northfield Experiments: Advancing on a Different Front, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (London)

A number of people have been enthusiastic supporters, contributing encouragement as well as practical help. First among these is Craig Fees of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive, who, with his patience over my amateurish recording techniques, knowledge, considerate enthusiasm for the project, and expertise, has been a pillar on which I have leant many times.”

2000

 

John Hopton, The future of therapeutic communities in adult mental health services, A Project funded by the Nuffield Foundation, Final Report.

I would also like to thank Craig Fees and his colleagues at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust for their invaluable support and assistance…”

2000

 

Ben Shephard, A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press

1998

 

Lucy Jaffé (ed.), Our Story: 50 years under canvas with Forest School Camps, Forest School Camps (Llangenny)

1998

 

David Kennard, An Introduction to Therapeutic Communities, Jessica Kingsley (London)

1996

 

Jocelyn Goddard, Mixed Feelings: Littlemore Hospital – An Oral History Project, Oxfordshire County Council (Oxford)

1995

 

Axel D. Kuhn, Alexander S. Neill, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH (Hamburg)

Articles and Chapters

2023   Annebella Pollen, "Indignities Impose by Arbitrary Ault Rule?" Children's Dress (and Undress) in Progressive Schools in Interwar England", Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 15:2 pp. 183-204

2018

  Nick Churchill, "The Caldecott Community: Hyde House's centre for a pioneering wartime care organisation', Dorset Life in Purbeck 2018 , pp. 15-16.

2018

  Mark Sevia, "Leila Margaret Rendel OBE. Visionary - Philanthropist - Pioneer, 1882-1969)", The Therapeutic Care Journal , 1st December 2018.
2018   Anne Karpf, "Beyond the consulting-room: Winnicott the broadcaster", in Angela Joyce, ed.,  Donald Winnicott and the History of the Present, London: Karnac
2017  

Lukas Allemann and Stephan Dudeck, "Sharing Oral History With Arctic
Indigenous Communities: Ethical Implications of Bringing Back Research Results", Qualitative Inquiry, November 2017.

2014

  Anne Karpf, "Constructing and Addressing the 'Ordinary Devoted Mother', History Workshop Journal 78:1 (2014), pp. 82-106.

2012

  David Gribble, "Good news for Francisco Ferrer - how anarchist ideals in education have survived around the world", in Changing anarchism: Anarchist theory and practice in a global age, edited by Jonathan Purkis and James Bowen, Manchester University Press, Chapter 10, pp. 181-198.
2012   Lindsey McEwen, Iain Robertson, Michael Wilson, “Learning to live with water: Flood histories, environmental change, remembrance and resilience”, Journal of Arts & Communities 12 Vol. 4; Iss. 1, pp. 3-9

2011

  Elaine Boyling, “Being Able to Learn: Researching the History of a Therapeutic Community”, Social History of Medicine 24:1, pp. 151-158.
2011   Sarah Pymer, “Ethical Editing of Oral Histories: The Experience of the Birmingham Children's Homes”, Journal of the Society of Archivists, 32:2, 191-204
2010   J. D. A. Widdowson, “Folklore Studies in English Higher Education: Lost Cause or New Opportunity?”, Folklore, 121:2, pp. 125-142
2008   David Millard, "Obituary: Richard Wilfred Crocket : A Professional Biography", Therapeutic Communities, 29:2, pp. 197-215.

2005

 

John Diamond, “Some Strands of a Longer Story – Reflections on the Development of Therapeutic Child Care in Britain”, Therapeutic Communities 26:4, pp. 495-502.

2004

 

Stuart Whiteley "The Evolution of the Therapeutic Community", Psychiatric Quarterly 75:3

2004

 

Christopher Reeves, "Drysdale, Barbara Estelle Dockar- [née Barbara Estelle Gordon] (1912-1999), psychotherapist" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

2004

 

Gribble, David, "Good news for Francisco Ferrer – how anarchist ideals in education have survived around the world", Chapter 10 in Jonathan Purkis and James Bowen (eds.), Changing Anarchism: Anarchist Theory and Practice in a Global Age, Manchester University Press

2002

 

Adrian Ward, “Editorial”, Therapeutic Communities 23:4, p. 227.

2001

 

Lesley Caldwell, “Continuities and Discontinuities at the Cassel Hospital Richmond 1977-1982”, Psychoanalytic Studies 3:3/4, pp. 363-379.

2001

 

David Kennard, “Alexis Korner’s Therapeutic Community and the Birth of British Blues”, Therapeutic Communities 22:1, pp. 19-28

Craig Fees who runs the archive was showing me round when I saw Alexis Korner’s photograph (one used for one of his record albums) on the cover of a book lying on a table. ‘What’s that doing here?’ I asked. ‘Oh, he was a boy at Finchden Manor,’ said Craig. I had stumbled on a bridge between two parts of my life, and between two British cultural movements, which suggested that they were connected by something more than simply being part of the same zeitgeist.”

2001

 

Gary Winship, Review of "Developments in Infant Observations - the Tavistock Model" ed. Susan Reid (Routledge, 1997), Therapeutic Communities 22:1, pp. 75-77.

1999

 

Malcolm Pines, “Forgotten Pioneers: The unwritten history of the therapeutic community movement”, Therapeutic Communities 20:1, pp. 23-42.

"Craig Fees, the enthusiastic archivist of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust…"

1987  

Rachelle H. Saltzman, "Folklore, Feminism,and the Folk: Whose Lore Is It?", The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 100, No. 398, pp. 548-562.

"Finally, I'd like to acknowledge Steve Roud, Doc Rowe, Marion Bowman, and Craig Fees, some of the folklorists in England without whose cultural translation and friendship my work could not have been accomplished."

1978

 

Michael Gorman, “A.J. Korzybski, J. Krishnamurti, and Carlos Castaneda: A Modest Comparison”, ETC: A Review of General Semantics 35:2, pp. 162-174.

"The author would like to thank Robert Roca, Craig Fees, Michael Leary, and Barry Lentz for their help with the ideas contained herein."

Other Media

   
2024   Film: "Hospital in the Mind - An Oral History of The Cassel Hospital", Filmed and Directed by Rob Lemkin. Produced by Laura Mitchison. An On the Record Production, in association with Old Street Films & The Cassel Hospital Charitable Trust
2023   Podcast: "Childcare Voices: Episode 1. Stay and Play", Produced and Artwork by Eva Freeman. Part of the Grow Your Own oral hisory project, run by On the Record. 20 September 2023.

1998

 

Radio: Andy Vivian, BBC producer, in interview about BBC’s Millennium oral history project on BBC Radio Gloucestershire.

     

Slide 10 from "Writing history: using archive weekends to collaborate with therapeutic communities",
University of Central Lancashire, 25 March 2015

Slide 10 of presentation: "Writing history: using archive weekends to collaborate with therapeutic communities", Writing Society, 2015 Semester 2, University of Central Lancashire, 25 March 2015